Wantanee Siripattananuntakoon at Saranrom Park, 1999

This early performance-based project explores presence, duration, and self-positioning within public space. Over seven consecutive days, Wantanee stood silently among seven trees in Saranrom Park, wearing a T-shirt printed with her name, location, and date, each rendered in the colour associated with that day of the week.

Facing away from the camera and toward the trees, she enacted a form of “non-performance,” questioning whether artistic action requires visibility, display, or spectacle. The work reframes performance as a sustained act of inhabiting time and space rather than as the production of events.

The resulting colour photographs were displayed on site alongside black-and-white postcards that visitors could take away. The postcards were continuously replenished throughout the exhibition, allowing the work to unfold over time through repeated acts of viewing and taking, shaped by the presence and movement of its viewers within the space.

Looking back, the project marks an early investigation into withdrawal, repetition, and witnessing—concerns that would later expand toward relational, interspecies, and cosmological forms of attention in the artist’s practice.